A time series analysis of weather variability and all-cause mortality in the Kasena-Nankana districts of Northern Ghana, 1995-2010

Global Health Action

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL., 2012, Pages 14-22

  Azongo, Daniel K ^a   Awine, Timothy ^a   Wak, George ^a   Binka, Fred N ^b,c   Oduro, Abraham Rexford ^a  

^a NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Distributed lag model; Mortality; Precipitation; Season; Temperature; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RAIN; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877154792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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